Brendan Foley
@thetruebrendanf.bsky.social
Part time imaginary friend. Contributor to http://Cinapse.co. Co-host of https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brendanagnew. BUY MY BOOK: https://www.amazon.com/Little-Terrors-1-Brendan-Foley-ebook/dp/B08YX8G6RK/ref=sr_1_1?crid=F79LKMDQ573T&dib=eyJ2IjoiM
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Speaking as a mathematics masters degree holder and writer with two bit (no pun intended) opinions.
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How Math Ruins the World: PW talks with Paul Tremblay
The Bram Stoker and British Fantasy Award winner straddles the line between absurdity and horror in Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep.
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February 15, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Speaking as a mathematics masters degree holder and writer with two bit (no pun intended) opinions.
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CRIME 101: Robust thriller with top-tier craft and a buncha no bullshit Movie Stars sinking their teeth into some prime material. A shade too long, but the slow burn has real sizzle.
February 14, 2026 at 7:46 PM
CRIME 101: Robust thriller with top-tier craft and a buncha no bullshit Movie Stars sinking their teeth into some prime material. A shade too long, but the slow burn has real sizzle.
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Become ungovernable
February 14, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Become ungovernable
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The great @audreyfox.bsky.social wrote about this very thing! crookedmarquee.com/the-refugees...
February 15, 2026 at 4:15 AM
The great @audreyfox.bsky.social wrote about this very thing! crookedmarquee.com/the-refugees...
Fluffy murder puppy.
Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
February 15, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Fluffy murder puppy.
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I saw someone say, “Emerald Fennell is Greta Gerwig’s Wario,” and I haven’t stopped laughing 😭
February 14, 2026 at 6:51 PM
I saw someone say, “Emerald Fennell is Greta Gerwig’s Wario,” and I haven’t stopped laughing 😭
"What do you expect me to do, grieve? He's not here anymore." One of the coldest things Michael Mann ever wrote in a career that's wall to wall ice cold declarations.
BLACKHAT is not a perfect movie, but Mann's conception of the new face of evil being a dead-eyed slob playing at godhood, reducing all human life to data points while being utterly disconnected from their own actions by virtue of their tech was...on point.
Getting reacquainted with a black hat hacker named Hathaway.
February 15, 2026 at 3:32 AM
"What do you expect me to do, grieve? He's not here anymore." One of the coldest things Michael Mann ever wrote in a career that's wall to wall ice cold declarations.
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God, I fucking love The Court Jester, with all my heart.
Share an actual fight scene with actual humans made by actual humans 🖤
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February 15, 2026 at 1:42 AM
God, I fucking love The Court Jester, with all my heart.
There are actors who can make Michael Mann's dialogue absolutely sing, but in 2015, Hemsworth was just not up to the task of delivering lines like, "I traded academia for gladiator academy" in any kind of believable way.
Getting reacquainted with a black hat hacker named Hathaway.
February 15, 2026 at 1:46 AM
There are actors who can make Michael Mann's dialogue absolutely sing, but in 2015, Hemsworth was just not up to the task of delivering lines like, "I traded academia for gladiator academy" in any kind of believable way.
I'm not contrarian enough to argue that BLACKHAT is a 'better' movie than SOCIAL NETWORK, I also just don't actually believe that, but I do think Mann had a better understanding of men like Zuckerberg than Sorkin trying to fashion that chinless waste into a lovelorn, tragic antihero.
BLACKHAT is not a perfect movie, but Mann's conception of the new face of evil being a dead-eyed slob playing at godhood, reducing all human life to data points while being utterly disconnected from their own actions by virtue of their tech was...on point.
Getting reacquainted with a black hat hacker named Hathaway.
February 15, 2026 at 1:23 AM
I'm not contrarian enough to argue that BLACKHAT is a 'better' movie than SOCIAL NETWORK, I also just don't actually believe that, but I do think Mann had a better understanding of men like Zuckerberg than Sorkin trying to fashion that chinless waste into a lovelorn, tragic antihero.
BLACKHAT is not a perfect movie, but Mann's conception of the new face of evil being a dead-eyed slob playing at godhood, reducing all human life to data points while being utterly disconnected from their own actions by virtue of their tech was...on point.
Getting reacquainted with a black hat hacker named Hathaway.
February 15, 2026 at 1:19 AM
BLACKHAT is not a perfect movie, but Mann's conception of the new face of evil being a dead-eyed slob playing at godhood, reducing all human life to data points while being utterly disconnected from their own actions by virtue of their tech was...on point.
Getting reacquainted with a black hat hacker named Hathaway.
February 15, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Getting reacquainted with a black hat hacker named Hathaway.
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What absolutely floors me is that normies like me know this and have known this for a while, and yet, the people who are ostensibly in fields that are coming to rely on this faulty tech somehow don't.
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
February 15, 2026 at 12:38 AM
What absolutely floors me is that normies like me know this and have known this for a while, and yet, the people who are ostensibly in fields that are coming to rely on this faulty tech somehow don't.
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It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
February 14, 2026 at 9:53 AM
It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
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i love how texas started this and was all “neener what you gon do” and a buncha blue states said “lol watch this”
The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that the state can put a redistricting plan on the ballot this spring that could add as many as four more Democratic seats in Congress.
The referendum will take place on April 21.
The referendum will take place on April 21.
February 14, 2026 at 8:55 PM
i love how texas started this and was all “neener what you gon do” and a buncha blue states said “lol watch this”
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[whispers] Damn good movie.
February 14, 2026 at 8:18 PM
[whispers] Damn good movie.
CRIME 101: Robust thriller with top-tier craft and a buncha no bullshit Movie Stars sinking their teeth into some prime material. A shade too long, but the slow burn has real sizzle.
February 14, 2026 at 7:46 PM
CRIME 101: Robust thriller with top-tier craft and a buncha no bullshit Movie Stars sinking their teeth into some prime material. A shade too long, but the slow burn has real sizzle.
Got my notebook out, ready for my first lesson in CRIME 101.
February 14, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Got my notebook out, ready for my first lesson in CRIME 101.
I don’t know what it is about this movie but it’s just in one ear and out the other. And I famously have a very high tolerance for Guy Ritchie’s nonsense, especially when Statham is in the mix.
Felt like watching something light, so tossed on OPERATION FORTUNE, a Guy Ritchie joint that I bounced off of on first viewing (despite it being a spiritual continuation of his basically-perfect MAN FROM UNCLE).
February 14, 2026 at 3:58 PM
I don’t know what it is about this movie but it’s just in one ear and out the other. And I famously have a very high tolerance for Guy Ritchie’s nonsense, especially when Statham is in the mix.
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Feb 14th 1900 - Several students of Appleyard College, a private girls school, disappear during an excursion to "Hanging Rock".
📽️📅 Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
📽️📅 Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
February 14, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Feb 14th 1900 - Several students of Appleyard College, a private girls school, disappear during an excursion to "Hanging Rock".
📽️📅 Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
📽️📅 Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
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guns are bad except for when Chow Yun-fat uses them
February 14, 2026 at 8:13 AM
guns are bad except for when Chow Yun-fat uses them
do you ever imbibe some adult beverages and then randomly start reading the wikipedia page for THE THIEF AND THE COBBLER and start feeling just so so so depressed
February 14, 2026 at 4:38 AM
do you ever imbibe some adult beverages and then randomly start reading the wikipedia page for THE THIEF AND THE COBBLER and start feeling just so so so depressed
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Today I learned that Brian Dennehy was originally supposed to play Hannibal Lecter in Manhunter, but Dennehy himself told Michael Mann "you need to talk to this guy Brian Cox."
February 14, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Today I learned that Brian Dennehy was originally supposed to play Hannibal Lecter in Manhunter, but Dennehy himself told Michael Mann "you need to talk to this guy Brian Cox."
Felt like watching something light, so tossed on OPERATION FORTUNE, a Guy Ritchie joint that I bounced off of on first viewing (despite it being a spiritual continuation of his basically-perfect MAN FROM UNCLE).
February 14, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Felt like watching something light, so tossed on OPERATION FORTUNE, a Guy Ritchie joint that I bounced off of on first viewing (despite it being a spiritual continuation of his basically-perfect MAN FROM UNCLE).